Common name of Palaemonetes pugio
 
Common Name Daggerblade grass shrimp
Language English
Type AFS
Official Trade Name No
Rank 1 - (Legal common name (unique))
Country Canada
Locality
Ref. Williams, A.B., L.G. Abele, D.L. Felder, H.H. Hobbs Jr., R.B. Manning, P.A. McLaughlin and I. Pérez Farfante, 1988
Life Stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core morphology
1st Modifier habitat/ecology
2nd Modifier morphology
Remarks 'shrimp' from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., 'to shrivel up'.
 
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